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Old Apr 18, 2010 | 3:35 am
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Sankaps
 
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Latest AP Headline: KLM pushes to resume passenger flights after tests
KLM pushes to resume passenger flights after tests
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100418/...celand_volcano

Excerpt:
"Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf quoted Hartman as having said at a news conference late Saturday that the airline has been "begging" the European air navigation safety agency Eurocontrol to consider lifting the ban, but the agency has so far refused to discuss the matter."

Note that KLM has first hand experience of volcano ash risks at it had a 744 fly thru it in 1989 in Alaska. So one would think they are aware of the risks.

And they are not Russians, so hopefully the Western world would listen more to them...!
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